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The Quiz

The Mother and Child Reunion

by Michael Swaine

Paul Simon says that he wrote the song “Mother and Child Reunion” after seeing the phrase on a Chinese restaurant menu describing a chicken-and-egg dish. Last month we presented a Chicken-and-Egg quiz, and this month we’re continuing this arbitrary and accidental homage to Paul Simon with this Mother and Child Reunion quiz.

So here’s the thing. We’ve somehow gotten the pairs of items below all mixed up. Your job is to reunite mothers and children. Pair each item on the left with the appropriate item on the right to create a Mother-and-Child reunion. Either the item from the left column will be (in some sense) the mother of the item from the right column, or the item in the right column will be (in some sense) the child of the item in the left column. “In some sense” is the key phrase: there are several different kinds of mother-child relationships represented here, but almost all of them pertain to computers and programming, and there is only one right way to pair up the moms and kids.

Mother

Child

1. Black, Estrada, Coronado, Collins, and Zappa

A. All markets, according to John Sculley

2. Grace Murray Hopper

B. WikiWiki

3. Mary Lou Jepson

C. Chicago

4. Mamma.com

D. Truth

5. Ada Lovelace

E. Ted Nelson

6. Jean E. Sammet

F. DEMO Conference

7. Adele Goldberg

G. DIMM

8. SNOBOL

H. FORMAC

9. Fortune

I. Grendel

10. Personal communicators

J. N. Katherine Hayles

11. A computer

K. Icon language

12. A demo in 1968

L. COBOL

13. Actress Angelina Jolie

M. Steven Paul Jobs

14. Actress Celeste Holme

N. Computer programming

15. Actress Hedy Lamarr

O. One Laptop Per Child

16. The ’60s

P. Wendi Shasta Leonardo

17. Susan Kare

Q. Search engines

18. HyperCard

R. Smalltalk

19. Time

S. Spread-spectrum crypto

20. Mobo

T. Invention

Answer to Last Month’s Quiz

Last month’s Chickens and Eggs quiz presented a series of pairs of events and asked you to say which of each pair happened first. Here are the answers. In each case, we list the earlier item first.